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Maya MacGuineas, of the Center for a Responsible Federal Budget, has been advising the group and said it's possible Coburn could come back to the table. “I could see the Gang getting back together,” she said. But Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), ...

... “It is extremely encouraging to have the president joining the discussion. But the plan itself contains less in savings than the White House Fiscal Commission recommended, which we look at as the minimum of what is needed to reassure credit markets and get our debt levels back on track.” — Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

Our 19-member Task Force, chaired by former Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici and former OMB and CBO Director Alice Rivlin, includes ... Karen Kerrigan, Maya MacGuineas, Dr. Donald Marron, Ed McElroy, Dr. Joseph Minarik, Mayor Marc Morial, Bill Novelli, and Mayor Anthony Williams. ...

“I'm surprised there hasn't been a successful conventional attack in the United States,” said Harman at a New America Foundation event on Wednesday. ...

The bill passed the Senate on Thursday and will return to the House, where a similar version of the measure was passed in June.

Small businesses will benefit from increased credit from community banks as well as tax relief. But these benefits are likely to be overshadowed by other factors: Banks have to be healthy enough to lend, and small businesses have to demand the loans. The bill’s tax credits, while helpful to many small businesses, will probably not guide business decisions to expand and grow the economy.

Earlier this month, President Obama stated that he would push forward the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, along with those of Panama and South Korea, “as soon as possible.” This announcement came amid a concerted White House effort to appear more pro-business and was touted as an important step to fulfilling the president’s promise to double exports within five years.

To get around its bare-bones budget, the commission's policy staff has borrowed experts from the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, ...

... Cato Institute; William Hartung, New America Foundation; Christopher Hellman, National Priorities Project; Heather Hurlburt, National Security Network; ...

Consider the indications (data provided by the New America Foundation, analysis by Sherle R. Schwenninger and Samuel Sherraden): · GDP growth has been 2.2 ...